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In my previous post, I learned what I could from a Google search of “Genesius of Arles.”  My search quickly led me to online encyclopedia entries ultimately derived from the erudite inquiries of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century researchers.  We benefit enormously from the monumental labor of these earlier scholars. Fortunately, much of their work, previously available only inContinue reading “St. Genasius, Part II: Navigating the Acta Sanctorum”

“There is, in fact, between the two branches of the Rhone, a village next to Arles called Trinquetaille where there is a certain magnificent and very high marble column, erected upon the ground, to be sure behind his church. It is to this column, as it is told, that the perfidious populace tied the BlessedContinue reading “Genasius of Arles: Example Post I”

Over the last thirty or so years, academic historians  have productively studied saints and their shrines within various contexts of local religious practice.   But this relatively recent academic interest is preceded by many centuries of careful scholarship by Catholic historians and philologists. We benefit enormously from the erudition of these earlier scholars. Even the undergraduate researcher can work with a much firmer sense for the extant medieval evidence when she knows how to accessContinue reading “Saints and Saints’ Cults: Research Tools I”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”